I'd say there's not much going on, but there's plenty. It's just not much to report back on. School starting for my older daughter, toddler playgroup for the younger. I'm volunteering at a hospital and will finally go back to karate after about five years away... Read More

Thanks for the well-wishes! It's been a painfult few days, but I'm almost better. I learned that codeine really doesn't agree with me. My mother was a fantastic help. My husband has been great. Even my kids have been good about it.

I'm conducting another food experiment at the moment. Let's see if I can handle bacon and eggs, hmm?

Saturday (aka Rapture Day v 1.0) I was making pie and I enlisted my husband to cut up the apples. One apple had no seeds, and another one had seeds that were growing. I was kind of expecting the rapture after that!

It's driving me nuts that no one is calling out "birthers" for being the racist assholes they are. I just can't believe that the same questions would be asked of a white man. Also, who the fuck cares where he was born, especially if he's lived in the country his whole life?

Life goes on. I'm making sure to pay extra attention to the other three cats. I keep expecting to see Digby come out from under the couch or something, but the way he was when he was healthy. He was so frail at the end.

"That's a noise," grinned the Grinch,
"That I simply MUST hear!"
So he paused. And the Grinch put his hand to his ear.
And he did hear a sound rising over the snow.
It started in low. Then it started to grow ...

But the sound wasn't sad!
Why, this sound sounded merry!
It couldn't be so!
But it WAS merry! VERY!

=D well its good to see you're still around, hope you are well too?
no i wasn't trapped anywhere, though i did miss a day of work cos i couldnt move my car and the buses stopped running. did manage to take a short trip to Belgium just before xmas too